Undergraduate College: Colorado College
Undergraduate Area of Study: History/Humanities
MCAT: BS 11, PS 11, VR 12, Q
Overall GPA: 3.85
Science GPA: 3.75
Brief Profile:
2007 grad, applying to medical school for the 2011-2012 cycle. Worked for the past 4 years in outdoor education (leading wilderness trips for teenagers), and at a women's health clinic.
AMCAS submitted: 7/25/2011
Applied, Rejected
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: No
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Application Complete
University of Vermont - "No interview. Too bad, I felt like this school would be a really good fit for me."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: 7/30/2011
- Interview Invite: No
- Interview Attended: No
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
No interview. Too bad, I felt like this school would be a really good fit for me.
Attended Interview, Waitlisted
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: 9/7/2011
- Interview Attended: 10/14/2011
- Waitlisted: 10/22/2011
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
This was my first II and the first school I heard back from. Too bad because I have family in Milwaukee, but in all honesty I wasn't wowed by this school.
University of Colorado - "I LOVED my interview day here. Campus is amazing, interviewers were really nice. Left here grinning ..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: 9/12/2011
- Interview Attended: 9/23/2011
- Waitlisted: 3/30/2012
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
I LOVED my interview day here. Campus is amazing, interviewers were really nice. Left here grinning and really hoping to get in. I also applied to their Rural Track, which I really liked.
University of Rochester - "Liked but didn't love this school. Probably it's mostly that I'm not crazy about the location."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: 9/20/2011
- Interview Attended: 10/31/2011
- Waitlisted: 11/30/2011
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
Liked but didn't love this school. Probably it's mostly that I'm not crazy about the location.
Columbia University - "I applied to the Bassett Track here. I'm not a city girl by nature, but I have to say, I totally lov..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: 9/30/2011
- Interview Attended: 10/26/2011
- Waitlisted: 3/5/2012
- Accepted: No
Summary of Experience:
I applied to the Bassett Track here. I'm not a city girl by nature, but I have to say, I totally loved Columbia. Sat in on a lecture and students were coming over to introduce themselves during breaks. Everyone I met was super laid-back and Dean Nicholas is fantastic.
Accepted
Rush Medical College - "I liked Rush a lot when I visited. Leave extra time for traffic though, I doubled the Google Maps es..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: 9/23/2011
- Interview Attended: 11/16/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 12/16/2011
Summary of Experience:
I liked Rush a lot when I visited. Leave extra time for traffic though, I doubled the Google Maps estimate and was still 15 min. late. Students were super-friendly. Love their new curriculum.
SUNY Upstate - "Woohoo! First acceptance. I waited MUCH longer than the 2-3 weeks they estimated for my decision, an..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: 9/26/2011
- Interview Attended: 11/2/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 12/13/2011
Summary of Experience:
Woohoo! First acceptance. I waited MUCH longer than the 2-3 weeks they estimated for my decision, and found out by checking my status page.
Tufts University - "I applied to the Maine Track here and loved it. So happy to get this acceptance! Only deterrent is t..."
Combined PhD/MSTP: No
- Submitted: Yes
- Secondary Completed: Yes
- Interview Invite: 10/13/2011
- Interview Attended: 12/2/2011
- Waitlisted: No
- Accepted: 1/6/2012
Summary of Experience:
I applied to the Maine Track here and loved it. So happy to get this acceptance! Only deterrent is the high price, but I would still be thrilled to end up here.
Summary of Application Experience
All my secondaries were in by the last week in August. Applied to 11 schools, went on 7 interviews, 3 acceptances.
I actually had a lot of fun at the interview days. The waiting is the part that has been really hard. I'm interested in rural medicine, so when I chose schools I first looked for locations/regions I really wanted to be in, then looked to see what schools offered rural medicine programs. I think the most important thing is to pick schools that really make you excited. I feel like in the cases where this was true, it really came through during my interviews.
